6– 12. ‘ In order, however, that this happy result may be attained, we again on our part urge you— and yet not we, but the Lord— not in any way to associate with a brother who is not living a well-ordered life in accordance with our teaching. For you yourselves cannot but be conscious that you ought to follow our example. When we were with you, we did not depend on others for our support. Rather in toil and moil, night and day, we worked that we might not lay an unnecessary burden upon any of you. You must not indeed suppose that we have not the right to maintenance, but we waived our right in order to set an example for you to follow. And not only so, but we gave you a positive precept to this effect. For you cannot have forgotten that while we were with you, we were in the constant habit of urging upon you that “ If any will not work, neither let him eat.” And we are the more led to go back upon this, because information is reaching us regarding certain of your number who are living ill-ordered lives, and, instead of attending to their own business, are busy with what does not concern them. It is such as these that we urge and entreat in the Lord Jesus to attend quietly to their own work and earn their own living.’ 6. Παραγγέλλομενδὲὑμῖν, ἀδελφοί] In introducing their παραγγελία the Apostles adopt a tone at once of affection and of authority— of affection, because it is to their ‘ brethren’ that they appeal, and of authority, because it is as the representatives of one Jesus, Who had been made known both as Lord and Christ, that they enforce their charge. ἐνὀνόματιτ. κυρ. Ἰης. Χρ.] practically synonymous here with διὰτ. κυρ. Ἰης. (1 Thessalonians 4:2 note), though the introduction of the common O.T. periphrasis (cf. Exodus 5:23, Deuteronomy 18:22, Jeremiah 11:21) lays greater stress on the personality and consequent authority of the person Spoken of: cf. 1:12 note, and for a full discussion of this and similar expressions see the exhaustive monograph by W. Heitmüller Im Namen Jesu (Göttingen, 1903). A similar usage occurs in the Κοινή where ὄνομα with the gen. often stands for the dat. of the name of the person addressed, e.g. Ostr. 670 Πανίσκος ... ὀνό(ματι) [ὀνό(ματος), Wilcken] Πασήμιοςκτλ. (other exx. in Herwerden). στέλλεσθαιὑμᾶςκτλ.] Στέλλειν originally = ‘ set,’ ‘ place,’ and hence ‘ bring together,’ ‘ make compact’ as e.g. of shortening the sails of a ship (Hom. Il. 1:433, Od. 3:11), by a natural transition came to denote generally ‘ restrain,’ ‘ check,’ and is found in the midd. in the sense of ‘ draw or shrink back from’ anything, whether from fear (Hesych.: στέλλεται· φοβεῖται) or any other motive as in Malachi 2:5 ἀπὸπροσώπουὀνόματόςμουστέλλεσθαιαὐτόν, 3Ma 1:19 αἱκαὶπροσαρτίωςἐσταλμέναι (‘ die sich gang zurückgezogen halten’ Kautzsch, and cf. Grimm’ s note ad loc.): cf. Hipp. Vet. med. 10 (ed. Foesius) οὔτʼ ἂνἀπόσχοιντοὧνἐπιθυμεοῦσιν, οὔτεστείλαντο, and see the old gloss quoted in Steph. Thesaur. s.v. where στέλλεσθαι is explained by ἀφίστασθαι, ἀναχωρεῖν. This gives the clue to its meaning here (Vg. ut subtrahatis vos) and in 2 Corinthians 8:20 στελλόμενοι (Vg. devitantes) τοῦτομήτιςἡμᾶςμωμήσηται, the only other place where it is found in the N.T. Thdt.: τὸστέλλεσθαιἀντὶτοῦχωρίζεσθαιτέθεικε. The compound ὑποστέλλω (-ομαι) is used in the same sense in Acts 20:20; Acts 20:27, Galatians 2:12, Hebrews 10:38; cf. Deuteronomy 1:17, Job 13:8, Sap. 6:7 (8). παντὸςἀδελφοῦ] Notwithstanding his faults, the title of ‘ brother’ is not, denied to the disorderly person, even while duty to the ‘ brotherhood’ requires that he be avoided; cf. 1 Corinthians 5:11. ἀτάκτως] See Add. Note G. κατὰτ. παράδοσινκτλ.] For παράδοσιν see 2:15 note, and for παρελάβετε see 1 Thessalonians 2:13 note. The marginal reading παρελάβοσαν is well-attested, and, if adopted, must have its subj. supplied from the collective ἀπὸπαντὸςἀδελφοῦ. The termination in -οσαν receives however scanty warrant from the papyri (Moulton Prolegg. p. 52), and in the present instance may have originated ‘ in an ocular confusion with -οσιν (παράδοσιν) in the corresponding place of the line above’ (WH.2 Notes p. 172).